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So after thinking about it for a while, I've decided we're gonna have a contest to name the Tea Shop! ...So, uh, anybody who has an idea can write it down, and when I've got all the ideas...you'll get to vote.

You've only got a week to come up with names to vote on. Get working!

[Sheena is just so tired of trying to be creative about it on her own, and the shop feels wrong without a name after all this time. Involving the village should solve lots of problems, right?

The shop closes early today, when its owner starts to feel strangely tired. She'll carry her journal out around midafternoon, locking the door behind her. At least she's been able to keep ice from forming on the stairs.

Near the bottom of the staircase, a wave of tired and dizzy wins out over balance. There's a lot of creative cursing - more than she'll inclined to - as she slides and rolls the last few steps...and the journal lands open in the mud and snow. So all that grumbling, and the noise of the fall? All nicely broadcasted.

Then she notices, hurrying to pick it up and clarify things.]

Uh, oops, dropped the book down the stairs. Sorry about that!

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The Tea Cosy! ... No wait, The Cosy Tea Cosy! How's that?

What's a 'tea cosy'?

What, you own a tea shop and you don't even know what a tea cosy is? Really?

It's this wooly cover you use to cover your tea pot, so the tea'll stay hot. Comes in all kinda shapes, sizes and colors.

[In her mind, you drink it all before it has the chance to get unpleasantly cold.]

What'd you need to keep it hot for? It'll all be gone by then.

Well, uh... It's like this, see. What if you make tea, then realize you have somewhere to be in a hurry so you can't drink it? That's when ya need a tea cosy!

...I'd just make myself fresh tea, I think.

Okay, okay, I can take a hint. No to the tea cosy.

Mug... Muggy... Blend...

The Blend Center?

... [There is a sigh.]

Just forget it. I should've figured no one else'd take it seriously.

[Oh. Oh, now she sounds upset. That is the complete opposite of what Oswald was trying to accomplish. As a toon, it's in his nature to cheer people up, rather than the other way around.]

No, no! Wait! I can do this! Just gimme a chance!

It's a tea shop, it's above the Welcome Center... It's in Luceti... Other world... Somethin' nice like Seventh Heaven...

The Otherworldly... Err... [he's snapping his fingers, trying to think of something.]

[If she names it the Otherworldly Gate, Raine is never going to come inside again.]

I'm not picking anything today anyway.

Oh... Well, you know what? I'll think about it and let you know if I come up with somethin' real good, okay?

But just so we're clear... No tea puns of any kind?

I'm getting kinda tired of them and it's only been about an hour.

People can get tired of puns? [What is this Oswald doesn't even.]

Lots of people can.

... Oh. From worlds other than yours, too?

I think it's pretty safe to say that you're unique if it doesn't start to drive you crazy.

Whoah, really? But puns are funny! They're supposed to make people laugh, right?

Edited 2012-01-17 04:42 (UTC)

Well yeah. That's just...a lot of them and I'm trying to do something serious.

Ohhh, I get it! It's the timing that's the problem! That makes sense. Timing can make or break a punchline, ya know?

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